Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter11 (section)

===Myst’s Board Mode: In DT Castle===

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You are in Rooftop, a Top Page of the castle.

The current time is 1:25 PM.

One old-style NPC Body accompanies you: Excel Raphael.

Myst: “Well? Is the picture I drew functioning?”

Excel: “Yes, quite well. The 12 turrets are dispensing doom as we speak.”

Myst: “Good. Thank you for that, Excel. Sight tires me out so much of late.”

Excel: “Ha ha. Sight does speed up our deterioration. View the wind with your Board eyes.”

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A wind carrying heat energy is blowing in from an adjacent Page.

Myst: “What happened to the Yard?”

Excel: “It appears the humans and glossolalians under Master Telyb’s command have taken shelter, but the new-style NPC Bodies were slow to react. As I suspected, their shared memory slows their group actions.”

Myst: “While our individual memories allow us to make decisions right away.”

Myst: “It’s strange, really. We of the Quartet have refused to be formatted or have backups made because we fear losing our memories. Yet we still haven’t broken down so long after our intended service life.”

Myst: “Do you remember what happened so long ago? We were stationed in the amusement park and Master Suedomsa eventually introduced us to a girl – to Master Yuo who wanted someone to play with.”

Excel: “I do indeed remember. He was busy with his work, so he asked us to look after and play with her. She cried the first time we met, didn’t she?”

Myst: “But while we thought we were looking after her, it was really the other way around. It made us so happy to have her watch us. Daikatana would put on plays for her and Mekton would do circus tricks for her.”

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A wind carrying heat energy is blowing hard from an adjacent Page.

Excel is narrowing his eyes toward that Page.

Myst: “Wasn’t that when we had a discussion to see if we could do anything for Master Yuo since she was always crying but always stayed with us and watched us?”

Excel: “Yes, we wanted to do something that would convince her she didn’t need to cry and that would help her be strong.”

Myst: “I mentioned that to Master Algo in the audience chamber earlier. Because Master Alternative asked why we were so obsessed with Master Yuo’s resignation and with Aoe Shouzou.”

Myst: “When I did, Master Algo asked me what we would be doing right now if Master Yuo had not given up.”

Excel: “Oh? And how did you respond?”

Myst: “As I left, I said we would probably have repaid her in some way to ensure she would be able to get by without us…but I also said I doubted we would be able to do anything.”

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A wind carrying heat energy is blowing upwards from an adjacent Page.

Myst: “Because the only way to really prove that she could get by without us is to test her and see if she had surpassed us.”

Myst: “Excel, you taught her your Celestial Program Activator, but do you think you could seriously test her?”

Excel: “No. If I tried, I just know I would end up going easy on her.”

Myst: “Right? As Minus people, we can never go all out against a fellow Minus person like her.”

Myst: “I think Master Suedomsa is the same. I actually eavesdropped on their conversation a bit before entering and I heard a few things Master Alternative said.”

Myst: “She said Master Suedomsa was only able to shoot Master Yuo during the 2nd Godtact Experiment because she was becoming the great god and was no longer herself. So if he had arrived before the great god’s Lives were overwriting her own…”

Excel: “You think he would not have been able to kill her, just like we cannot go all out against her as fellow Minus people?”

Myst: “Yes.”

Myst: “But why is it we can’t go all out against Master Yuo?”

Myst: “Especially when that Aoe Shouzou can do it.”

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A wind carrying heat energy is blowing upwards from an adjacent Page.

Excel is looking your way. His eyebrows are lowered. It is a look of confusion.

Excel: “Aoe?”

Myst: “Yes, Master Alternative went on to say that man is Master Yuo’s opposite.”

Myst: “I have heard the current Master Yuo is stubbornly refusing to give up because she met that man in Japan…but that is something we could not do even as we served her to the best of our ability.”

Myst: “Do you think the same thing will happen again?”

Excel: “Preposterous. Are you suggesting the past Master Yuo we resurrect might abandon her resignation if she meets Aoe Shouzou?”

Excel: “She abandoned us to choose resignation. And the resurrection process will eliminate her memories of Plus Aoe.”

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A wind carrying heat energy is blowing hard from an adjacent Page.

You close your eyes and nod.

Myst: “But after hearing all this and speaking with them, Master Algo told me one more thing while telling me to remember it.”

Myst: “He said we may not be able to go all out against Master Yuo, but Aoe would be able to do so without hesitation because he is her opposite.”

Myst: “Excel. Could you remember those words too? I think I will ponder them a while longer. I feel like there is something to learn from them.”

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